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Elena is at once a portrait, an autobiography and a history of family trauma.
Robert Everett-Green, Globe and Mail
Overview
Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actresses and heirs of the wounds of the Brazilian dictatorship. But Petra has only a few clues: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary...
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The movie becomes a defiant reversal of that sentiment, an act of creation in the face of death.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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A type of cinematic performance art, with all the self-consciousness that suggests - a sibling love story that's no less heartfelt for being in the form of a first-person poem.
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
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Mysterious and hermetic, this memoir is a collage of home movies, photographs, audio recordings and lyrical narration that reframes a troubled family history through a heartbroken lens.
Steve Dollar, Wall Street Journal
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This haunting and dreamlike cinematic essay is filmmaking at its most personal.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
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